Creating a sustainable chocolate industry

Whenever market researchers report on UK consumers’ favourite purchases, chocolate-based products feature strongly. Chocolate is a key ingredient of many products we enjoy e.g. hot drinks, biscuit snacks, cakes, and confectionery. To make their products, chocolate manufacturers use recipes that rely heavily on cocoa beans. Cocoa liquor and cocoa butter come from cocoa beans. Chocolate manufacturers buy the cocoa beans, liquor and butter they need on world markets. Chocolate production and manufacture is a worldwide industry with some interesting characteristics. Most chocolate products are eaten…